Title: htaccess remove category base
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# htaccess remove category base

 *  [apech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apech/)
 * (@apech)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-remove-category-base/)
 * Hi, im update my wordpress and my htaccess control plugin, when i try remove 
   the category base in url, redirect me to 404 not found, i have a permalinks, 
   i resubmit the permalinks but, dont works. can you help me?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-htaccess-control/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-htaccess-control/)

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 *  [tyl3r](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tyl3r/)
 * (@tyl3r)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-remove-category-base/#post-4912254)
 * Same problem here,
 * Removing category base = 404 error
 * Removing the author base and the other functionalities are ok.
 * For fixing this i opted for [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-no-category-base/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-no-category-base/)
 *  [unforg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/unforg/)
 * (@unforg)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-remove-category-base/#post-4912263)
 * Think the problem is following
 *     ```
       $tax_name = $taxonomy->name;
       ....
       $new_rules[$ancestors . '(' . $term->slug . ')' . $suffix . '/?$'] = 'index.php?' . $tax_name . '=$matches[1]';
       ```
   
 * so that for category $tax_name = ‘category’, and this varible is used as query_var,
   which should be “category_name” for category.

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 * Last reply from: [unforg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/unforg/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-remove-category-base/#post-4912263)
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